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Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, on Wednesday, called on the UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese to resign, who denied the “extermination of Palestinians” from their land through “genocide”.

Danny Danon published on platform X a call for the immediate resignation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. This call came after Albanese said before a committee in the United Nations General Assembly that developments in recent months “reinforce my assessment that Israel is waging a genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.” .”

“Once again, the UN is rolling out the red carpet for one of the most anti-Semitic figures in modern history, giving her a platform to spread baseless propaganda and lies.” ,” Danon wrote. Addressing Albanese directly, he said, “Your presence in the United Nations is an insult and a betrayal of all moral standards. Resign immediately. Leave your credentials at the door and join your friends in Hamas and Hezbollah, where you are.

Albanese has long faced strong criticism, accusations of anti-Semitism, and calls for her expulsion from Israel due to her ongoing allegations of genocide against the Jewish state. She previously said that the attack launched by Israel following the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 was part of a “systematic process by the state to expel and replace Palestinians.”

UN rapporteurs are independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council, and do not speak on behalf of the UN. Albanese also defended herself at a press conference on Wednesday. “I don’t really feel comfortable having more conversations about the attacks against me, because it’s not about me, and I’m not the story. The story is that there are Palestinians who are at risk of being removed from their country,” she said. She described the United States as “supporting what Israel is doing.”

Albanese is “not qualified for her position,” wrote US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on platform X. “The United Nations should not tolerate anti-Semitism from a UN official appointed to protect human rights promotion,” she said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Israel’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva said in a statement that the State of Israel has no historical reason to exist, nor the right to protect its people, and that Israel is using its “hateful vision” ” at Albanese. Attack on October 7th to save… “Guards are just an excuse.” The statement said, “This distorted truth is a way to hide his hatred for Israel. “

The Israeli mission accused the Scots of being nothing more than a “political activist” who regularly spreads “anti-Semitism, defends and promotes terrorism and distorts the law.” to violate all possible rules of the United Nations Code of Conduct.” “He must be held accountable immediately for his continued violations.”

The war began after an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,206 people, most of them civilians. During the attack, 251 people were also kidnapped, 97 of whom are still in custody in Gaza, and the army says 34 of them died. Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza caused the death of at least 43,163 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to the latest data from the Hamas Health Ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable.

The long dark relationship between Israel and the United Nations ended after the war. Albanese said in a report published on Tuesday that the “continuing genocide” in Gaza is “undoubtedly the result of the exceptional situation and the extensive blockade enjoyed by Israel.”

She said, “The genocide of the Palestinian people appears to be a means to an end: the extermination or complete elimination of Palestinians from the land to which their identity is fundamentally linked and to which is Israel openly seeking and violating the law.”